In preparation for this post, I researched just how much time I've spent listening to his music using the itunes veiw counter. After calculating for a solid twenty minutes (that takes dedication for blog post preparation!) I found out the followint things;
-I've listened to a Billy Joel song all the way through 916 times
-This has taken me 61 hours, or about two and a half days to do so. Obviously, I spend too much time listening to Billy Joel.
What really bugs me is that among my friends, I'm one of the only ones who's actually heard of him! They talk about the Beatles and Led Zeppelin and Simon and Garfunkel, but they don't know an equally great artist in Billy Joel.
If you're an awesome individual, however, I know that you'll like Billy Joel. If not... 150 million records sold, people. The numbers don't lie. EIther way, I hope that you'll enjoy me gushing about Joel's music for the next little while. Below is the first part of my top ten favourite Billy Joel songs. I encourage you to listen to these songs before you actually read the article, so that you can get the full experience. That means you, Laura; I don't know if even you've been exposed to the mastery of all of these songs.
Now without furthur ado... I'll let Billy Joel take the stage.
10. The Longest Time
The longest time gets on the list for sheer awesomeness in it's acapela style. Truly, listening to this song you can hear all of the different layers of singing-ness, which incidentally were all sung by Billy Joel. The high parts, the low parts, the main part. If nothing else this demonstrates Joel's range, and makes for a happy little song to sing.
9. Big Shot
Walking to a Doctors appointment today, I was pleasently surprised when I heard this song playing in the hallway. The fact that I started dancing and lipsincing in the hall shows both my extreme random dancing disorder and the epicness of this song.
What quality of the song makes it so good, I couldn't tell you. Perhaps it's the beat. The little clapping they do. Maybe the variation between similar verses. No matter what it is, this is another great song.
8. You May be Right
Just a couple weeks ago, I decided to try to expand my Billy Joel song inventory.
I've been exposed to his music in a lot of different ways. A Rhett and Link video included one of his songs, I found out that glee did an episode featuring him, and I picked up another couple songs listening to the Billy Joel radio station.
This time, I went to youtube to find new Billy Joel songs. Looking up something along the lines of "Best Billy Joel songs," I found not only this song, but Big Shot and two others included on this list. What can I say about this song in particular? The answer to that is only that it's terrily catchy, as I'm sure you can tell if you just listened to the song!
Good old Billy Joel just never dissapoints.
7. Piano Man
Ah, the classic Billy Joel song. The 'deepness' of this song just flows out. It's also a great example of how poetic some Billy Joel songs can be; "Yes they're sharing a drink they call loneliness/but it's better then drinking alone" stands out.
You know how some song have certain notes that give you chills? This song has the title of having the best single word in a Billy Joel song in my mind. Perhaps you noticed it too; "And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar and say man what are you doing here?"
That word of man is just epic. There's so much power, so much emotion behind it... but lets move on.
6. River of Dreams
This is another poetic song which you feel has some deeper meaning behind it. Consider the line "something so undefined that it can only be seen by the eyes of the blind." Don't you get the feeling that there's some deep message behind that? I mean, I sure don't know what it is, but stilll...
Yup, it's hard to go wrong with a Billy Joel song. And even these have nothing on the top five songs! Stay tuned, people. In the meantime... I must go to sleep.
Thanks for reading,
-Mark
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